TURKLEGAL INSIGHTS

Turkish utility model system provides strong protection for inventions since Turkish Industrial Property Law (IPL) came into force in early 2017. Under the earlier patent law (Decree Law No. 551), Turkish utility models were granted based on simple upon-filing registration requests, which makes its protection…

Many patent offices strive to gather their work on common ground to offer applicants a faster path to the patenting process, reduce patent office workloads and streamline the examination procedures. This fast-track patent examination procedures are called Patent Prosecution Highway, abbr. PPH. The PPH begins…

If you have received a refusal for your Turkey designation under Madrid Protocol, you should first check WIPO's notification date. The notification date is the date for calculating the deadline. You should add two months to the WIPO's notification date to calculate the deadline to…

Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (TURKPATENT) provides online trademark search feature in both Turkish and English languages on this link The trademark searches can be performed based on one criteria or in combination with more than one criteria. The search criteria are as follows: When…